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| Author | : Jill Grant |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 349 |
| Release | : 2020-03-15 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 077486205X |
In recent decades growing inequality and polarization have been reshaping the social landscape of Canada’s metropolitan areas, changing neighbourhoods and negatively affecting the lived realities of increasingly diverse urban populations. This book examines the dimensions and impacts of increased economic inequality and urban socio-spatial polarization since the 1980s. Based on the work of the Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership, an innovative national comparative study of seven major cities, the authors reveal the dynamics of neighbourhood change across the Canadian urban system. By mapping average income trends across neighbourhoods, they show the kinds of factors – social, economic, and cultural – that influenced residential options and redistributed concentrations of poverty and affluence. While the heart of the book lies in the project’s findings from each city, other chapters provide critical context. Taken together, they offer important understandings of the depth and the breadth of the problem at hand and signal the urgency for concerted policy responses in the decades to come.
| Author | : Angie Debo |
| Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 1998-09-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780806130941 |
Prairie City is the social history of a representative midwestern town - a composite of several Oklahoma small towns. Beginning with the "one flashing moment" of the 1889 land run, which opened the "Oklahoma Lands" for white settlement, Angie Debo depicts the struggles of the settlers on the vast prairie to build a community despite seasons of drought, prairie fire, and destitution. Solidly based on historical research, Prairie City chronicles the arrival of the railroad, the growth of political parties and educational institutions, KKK uprisings, the oil boom, the Depression and the New Deal, and the effects of two world wars on small-town America.
| Author | : Richard Duggan |
| Publisher | : Strategic Book Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 363 |
| Release | : 2010-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1609111877 |
Arrogance in a small town may be compared to a societal game. The object of the game is to convince as many opponents as possible to change sides, using verbal or written means, including insults and innuendo to accomplish this goal. When nastiness fails to attract anyone from the opponents' side, the game is over. Unfortunately, in the small Western town of River Valley, members of the two teams may remain permanently divided. Two men from different classes in society, Franklin Gillard and Jack Parker, have become team captains in this competition. Assistant County Prosecutor Gillard started the game, while Parker was unintentionally drawn into it. The important question is: Will the town of River Valley come out a winner or will everyone be losers? Only time will tell. A Town Divided: A Story of a Beautiful Small Town - Torn Apart by the Disease of Arrogance brings into focus the differences that make people angry. It poses the dilemma that if a small town cannot come together in peace, then there is little hope for the rest of the world. Author Richard Duggan is a trial lawyer in Bonita Springs, Florida. He is working on his next book. www.RichardDugganLawyerWriter.com http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/ATownDivided.htm
| Author | : Royden Loewen |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2009-11-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1442697148 |
Over the course of the twentieth century, sequential waves of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa settled in the cities of the Canadian Prairies. In Immigrants in Prairie Cities, Royden Loewen and Gerald Friesen analyze the processes of cultural interaction and adaptation that unfolded in these urban centres and describe how this model of diversity has changed over time. The authors argue that intimate Prairie cities fostered a form of social diversity characterized by vibrant ethnic networks, continuously evolving ethnic identities, and boundary zones that facilitated intercultural contact and hybridity. Impressive in scope, Immigrants in Prairie Cities spans the entire twentieth century, and encompasses personal testimonies, government perspectives, and even fictional narratives. This engaging work will appeal to both historians of the Canadian Prairies and those with a general interest in migration, cross-cultural exchange, and urban history.
| Author | : Douglas Bauer |
| Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2008-11 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1609380266 |
Weary from the journalistic treadmill of "going from one assignment to the next, like an itinerant fieldworker moving to his harvests" and healing from a divorce, Douglas Bauer decided it was time to return to his hometown. Back in Prairie City, he helped on his father's farm, scooped grains at the Co-op, and tended bar at the Cardinal. The resultant memoir is a classic picture of an adult experiencing one's childhood roots as a grown-up and testing whether one can ever truly go home again. Bauer grew up "awkward with soil and with machines" in a small town east of Des Moines, As a teenager, he left the farm for college life twenty miles away and, after graduation, took a job with Better Homes and Gardens in Des Moines, writing in the junk-mail fictional persona of "Barbara Joyce,"asking millions of people to subscribe. After a few years he moved to Chicago to work as an editor and writer for Playboy and eventually as a freelance journalist. In the summer of 1975, he returned home to attend his grandmother's funeral and by autumn he moved back to Prairie City, where he stayed for the next three seasons. Bauer's book is neither a wistful nostalgia about returning to a simpler time and place nor a patronizing look at those who never leave the town in which they were born. What emerges is an unsentimental yet loving account of life in the Midwest. Not just a portrait of Prairie City, Iowa, but of everyone's small town, everywhere.
| Author | : Jino Distasio |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781894858342 |
| Author | : Greg Suttor |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2016-11-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0773548580 |
Social housing - public, non-profit, or co-operative - was once a part of Canada's urban success story. After years of neglect and many calls for affordable homes and solutions to homelessness, housing is once again an important issue. In Still Renovating, Greg Suttor tells the story of the rise and fall of Canadian social housing policy. Focusing on the main turning points through the past seven decades, and the forces that shaped policy, this volume makes new use of archival sources and interviews, pays particular attention to institutional momentum, and describes key housing programs. The analysis looks at political change, social policy trends, housing market conditions, and game-changing decisions that altered the approaches of Canadian governments, their provincial partners, and the local agencies they supported. Reinterpreting accounts written in the social housing heyday, Suttor argues that the 1970s shift from low-income public housing to community-based non-profits and co-ops was not the most significant change, highlighting instead the tenfold expansion of activity in the 1960s and the collapse of social housing as a policy priority in the 1990s. As housing and neighbourhood issues continue to flare up in municipal, provincial, and national politics, Still Renovating is a valuable resource on Canada’s distinctive legacy in affordable housing.
| Author | : S. J. Clarke |
| Publisher | : Heritage Books |
| Total Pages | : 716 |
| Release | : 1878 |
| Genre | : History |
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| Author | : Stefan Epp-Koop |
| Publisher | : Univ. of Manitoba Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2015-09-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0887554733 |
Stefan Epp-Koop’s "We’re Going to Run This City: Winnipeg’s Political Left After the General Strike" explores the dynamic political movement that came out of the largest labour protest in Canadian history and the ramifications for Winnipeg throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Few have studied the political Left at the municipal level—even though it is at this grassroots level that many people participate in political activity. Winnipeg was a deeply divided city. On one side, the conservative political descendants of the General Strike’s Citizen’s Committee of 1000 advocated for minimal government and low taxes. On the other side were the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party of Canada, two parties rooted in the city’s working class, though often in conflict with each other. The political strength of the Left would ebb and flow throughout the 1920s and 1930s but peaked in the mid-1930s when the ILP’s John Queen became mayor and the two parties on the Left combined to hold a majority of council seats. Astonishingly, Winnipeg was governed by a mayor who had served jail time for his role in the General Strike.
| Author | : Gillian Joseph |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2016-10-04 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 131727086X |
Focusing on under-researched aspects of social, economic and political change, this volume offers fresh insights into aging, older people and their families. It combines an international and interdisciplinary approach. Chapters explore the contexts in which family roles, institutional practices, public policies and social and cultural discourses evolve, connecting analyses of aging issues and policy development with sound research practices, as well as previously-ignored gaps in professional practice. Topics covered include politics and policy, health and social care, culture and migration, urban and rural sociology, gender studies, technology and economics. The book will be of particular interest to students and researchers in gerontology, community development, geography and population studies, along with researchers and professionals in physiotherapy, nursing and social work.
